Marcelle Kahane
- Illustrator
Married to
Their son Maurice took her maiden name, Girodias, during the Occupation.
- Publisher
- Author
Jack Kahane
Founder of the Obelisk Press — the Manchester novelist turned Paris booklegger who published Tropic of Cancer when no one else would.
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Details
- 1887–1939
- 20 July 1887
- Broughton, England
- 3 September 1939
- Paris
- British
- PublisherAuthor
People they knew
Maurice Girodias
- Publisher
- Illustrator
Parent of
Son of Jack Kahane and Marcelle Kahane. He took his mother's maiden name, Girodias, during the Occupation.
Organizations
Founded · 1929
Obelisk Press
Founded in Paris with printer Herbert Clarke after Kahane's London publisher went under — the press that printed what London and New York didn't dare.
Operated · 1929–1939
Obelisk Press
Kahane ran the press himself from its founding until his death in September 1939, days after the war began.
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Founded · 1929
Obelisk Press
Founded in Paris with printer Herbert Clarke after Kahane's London publisher went under — the press that printed what London and New York didn't dare.
Operated · 1929–1939
Obelisk Press
Kahane ran the press himself from its founding until his death in September 1939, days after the war began.
Parent of
Maurice Girodias
Son of Jack Kahane and Marcelle Kahane. He took his mother's maiden name, Girodias, during the Occupation.